Breakfast
at Tiffany's opened in Detroit at the Madison Theater on Friday,
October 20, 1961. It earlier opened in New York City at the Radio City
Music Hall on October 5, 1961.

"Audrey
Hepburn's slender shoulders carry nearly the full burden of 'Breakfast
at Tiffany's,' film version of Truman Capote's novella about the life
and loves of a transplanted Texas girl in Manhattan," wrote Al Weitschat
in The Detroit News on October 20, 1961. "This is sophisticated
comedy on the thin side and it buzzes along as lightly as a feather."

"
'Breakfast at Tiffany's' opened at the Madison Theater Friday as a movie
which bears no resemblance to the great Truman Capote story by the same
name," wrote Louis Cook in the October 21, 1961 edition of the Detroit
Free Press. "But don't go away. One assumes that Capote gets
a pleasant piece of change for selling a book to the movies of which only
the name is used."

The
second run of Breakfast
at Tiffany's immediately began on December 20, 1961, when it opened
at the Redford and other Detroit area theaters and drive-ins. It played
a Christmas week engagement at the Redford with Scream
of Fear (Susan Strasberg) until December 26, 1961, before being
replaced by Blue
Hawaii with Elvis Presley.